The National tribune., 1887-12-08


like:
1--WE won't 90 home till morning
We won't go home till morning.
Till daylight doth appear"
mo, Idon't chew" said "but I'll send out
and get you some.'
$50 do: so do. 4" assented Pokeberry. with
the solemn dignity Of man who has hidden
away three drinks,-grown mans size-of
straight whisky. He made q lurch toward
the chair, deliberately adjusted himself in a
sitting posture about foot above the seat, and
then sat down the remaining IL inches with
crash that made the floor shake. He gazed
sternly at the chair and then at me. You
think it dog goned smart don't ye now, to saw
of them legs o. that air cheer, an fool people
when they set down. You'd better take SAT-
from. to keep that smartness from strikin' in
an bein' the death o ye. Started the boy for
that terbaeker yitP
" Not yet, but be shall 20 immediately"
"Well, tell him to get plug-dog-legi fthey've
got it. Don't git none O this slimpsey ine-cut.
Nobody but a thin-legged dandp pratt can chaw
that stuff 1t just turns my stummick, so it
does"
"Well, the right kind of tobacco will be here
| in a few minutes. Go ahead with your story"
who said I'd any story to tell2 Well, for
a fact, did kalkerlate t. tell We bout the big
time there wuz when Lie Hathaway an
Sphrony Tulkinhorn wuz married S'phrOny
wuz a high-hyer, L tell ye-reg'lar Atwood
wool warp, indigo-dyed high flyer Style
wnz the main thing that she thought or talked
! bout. She came by her airiness materially, for
/ her mother, who wuz a TOliiver, pTanced purity
high, an it wuz purity bothersOme for the ole
| Squire to keep his feet fiat on the ground when
he remembered he owned the only niger on
Dog Fennel Criek, that he'd once set in the
| Legislator, an that he'd been Iected Squire
/ SIX times hand-runnin'. S'phrony had the
| tOp-lOftical notions she'd come by materially
/ from these two pulled up still more by readin'
the Moo York Ledger week in an week out
ontil she got so blamed airy that some people
were afeared that she might stick herself with
pin some day when she wuz dressin', an bust
| like balloon.
"Lje wanted to be married right off; he'd
q been glad to've had the old Squire marry
| 'em right there on the banks O. the crick, with
nobody but ole Nelse for witnesses, for he wuz
powerful skeery bout S'phrony flynn the
| track. But Sphrony said she wouldn't marry
| no man alive without a proper Weddin' an a
/ trOw-so This wuz moo word for Lie, an he
said, 'spect you'll wear them things alter
/ were married, but can't ye wait for 'em until
| alter we're pined?'
".Wear what2 What on airth are you
talkin' OFF, axed S'phrony, with her big blue
eyes beginnin' to stand out.
"'Why, said Lie, little confused, the
| trOwserS you mentioned. Everybody saws
1
| marry
| "S'phrony looked mad enough for a mint
/ to snap his head off, an then broke into what
she used to call silvery larf Well, of all
the ign'ranee,' she said, that ever heared on.
/ "Trow-so" is the name for the clothes young
lady gifts when she is to be married. / can't
/ git married like one o. these common ordinary
girls, with any sort o clothes / must have a
| trow-so like any other young lady of quality
| So the Squire sold off every hog he had on
/ the place, not leavin' none for his Winters
/ meat, an his family had to live mainly on corn
pone and buttermilk ontil they could kill a
lamb or calf in the Spring, an ole Nelse got
SO thin that you could count every rib in his
| sides q hundred rods Of-an' give the money to
/ Sphrony for her trow-so. When it Wuz ready
the women come for miles to see it, and they
couldn't talk O. nOthin' else at meetin's an
quiltin's but S'phrony Tulkinhorn's weddin'
finery. Sich a gown and sich a bunnt; an she
actually had steel hoops, an so big too, that
she could sca'cely git through the door when
she had 'em on. The other women had never
had anything but homemade ones of grape
vines an hickory strips, an they all wuz Just
Dustin with envy. Many o them said that
sieh extravaganza wuz positively wicked, an
they were a-gwiue to have Elder Jaggers preach
a powerful sermon agin SIGH sinfulness.
| The Wednesday betwixt Christmas an
New Years wuz sot for the weddin', an every
| DOuy on the OIlCk lfOLu Tue moulin 10 lCS mead
waters, with all the branches, tended OF
course the whole Hoskins an Virgins tribes
froLl the headwateTs wuz out in full force, ez
they alters wuz when there wuz the least
chance O. gettin' plenty to eat an drink at
somebody else's expense
sd alters been a sort of right-hand man o.
the 'Squire's an l went down ahead o. the
company on the day o. the weddin' TO help him
take keer o the 'nupehel guests ez Sphrony
| caIied tem Nv doc MOreoyer want with mo
as he did everywhere, ontl he met with his
ontimely fate. He wuz named Moreover by
Jerusha Ann, my wife, because she said that
wuz Bible name. The Bible says somewhere
that Moreover, the dog, come an licked his
Sores Moreover wuzn't edzaetly what y'd call
purity dog. His color wuz yaller; he'd had
an ear chawed off by Bud HOskinss bull-tar-